11.   Other targets are political figures, like Lewsley, a Belfast councilman whose moderate party competes with former IRA activists for the Catholic vote.

12.   Although the campaign for the election officially opens next Monday, Frowick said there was no deadline for him to decide whether the party could compete.

13.   Both parties compete for support among the predominant Malay Muslim ethnic group.

14.   During elections, no party competes for votes nationwide.

15.   Fifty-five parties were competing in the election.

16.   Forty-eight parties competed, but only five won big shares.

17.   Forty-eight parties competed, but only five won the overwhelming majority of the votes.

18.   In the capital, the two parties have competed through leaflets, rallies, slogans blaring through megaphones and cassettes of rhetoric set to traditional Yemeni music.

19.   It said the government also limits independence of judges and freedom of the press, making it hard for opposition parties to compete.

20.   Mahathir, whose party competes against the Islamic party for support among the predominant Malay Muslim community, shares some common ground with the opposition.